I have written about water woes of indore before here , here , here & http://indoreheartofindia.blogspot.com/2008/11/missing-poll-issue-narmada.html & also here , here

and my conclusion is that water problem is here to stay becoz our leaders are part of problem and not the solution

1. them make good money in this whole tanker business every year2. manning tanker and distributing water becomes alibi for not doing any development work in area. One sure shot plank to win election is late night tanker in localities manned by your leader.3. All talabs and their catchment area is being converted to concrete jungle4. Those with means exploiting ground water aquifer like there is no tomorrow.

In relative sense we are better today , but it is an ostrich like situation of assuming that there is no problem.

IMC's annual budget is not enough to meet cost of bringing narmada to indore but as it sounds catchy everyone is for it.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

1. MP is one of those states in nation where bureaucracy is strong and officers seldom pay attention to ministers or MLAs. In case of home minister last home minister Himmat kothari and current home minister Umashankar gupta despite being old timers were not even minister in uma bharti cabinet and can very well lose assembly election next time and fall into oblivion, so their control over administration is fickle.

2. problem is compounded when thier interests lie elsewhere. Mr Kothari was accused of scam in purchase of guns and Mr gupta was captured by media pressurising police at 2 am in night when one of his friend was caught in case of illegal hostel.

4. Even other leaders are not without blame. Assembly constituency 4 has long been plagued by 'vasooli' and 'chanda' problem, when Lakshman singh gaud was alive his 'koti chandi' yagna meant open extortion on business people.

5. Family of other ex BJP MLA is actively involved in hammali racket in siyaganj.

6. At least two current MLAs have benefited from co operative scam directly and ramesh mandola, the pension kingpin is also accused in one of the cooperative society case.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

We had a story of Premchand in school books called 'panch parmeshwar' which outlined importance of neutrality by people occupying critical posts and need of strengthening of institutions and this can not be overemphasized in a place like Indore which is all poised to grow up but is hemmed with no history of institutions and is being plagued by all ills of badlands of UP and Bihar.

It has been only Mr Chaddha in recent years who donned the mantle of VC perfectly without fear or favor and initiated many reforms at university.

This time person doing same is different and the way he came to occupy the chair has also not been entirely without controversy.At least he is improvement over Bhagirath Prasad who was essentially a political appointee and was using post more for his politic political career.

Mr Sehrawat has managed to antagonize the person who got him the post.his small expenses are also a matter of talk in newspaper and when he removes two corrupt HODs both parties join in protest . this clearly means he is trying to tread an independent path.

He has presented a very good budget of around 150 cr for development of university and certainly one Mr Madhu Verma who has left no stone unturned to misuse public money of IDA for his political gain cold learn from this budget.

His insistence on attending only those functions where organizers plant at leas 10 trees is a step in right direction and in a city where public discourse has been reduced to vulgar 'aayojan' and 'karyakram' culture with chanda or ill gotten money often inconveniencing common man this comes as a welcome respite.

Hope he does more to improve administration of university and for this he needs to break free of registrar.

In all central institutions like IIT and IIM dean is far more powerful than registrar who is mere administrator but it is reverse case in state universities and only assertive people like Mr Sehrawat can change the situation for better.

Wikipedia defines Luddites as "The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their entire way of life.

This English historical movement should be seen in the context of the era's harsh economic climate due to the Napoleonic Wars, and the degrading working conditions in the new textile factories. Since then Luddite has been used to describe those opposed to industrialization or new technologies [1]."

if one glances through daiy newspapers one can find many example of such people being present in Indore..

Central government is funding this DMIC as a model for faster industrial and overall development of the region.

I think it is high time that government in MP implements a similar corridor between bhopal indore ....

1. it can be extended to pithampur on one side and madideep on other side.2. it has best highway in state which is almost free of highway crime as opposed to other highways.3. hinterland of jhabua,dhar, ratlam on one side and vidisha, hoshangabad on other side can provide raw material and cheap labor.4. agricultural extension centers, contract farming, chain of cold storage and agro processing industry can be promoted in dewas, ashta, sonkach and sehore.5. indore can be developed as regional service hub with incentive to software and BPO6. bhopal can be made hub for niche area and hotel and catering, fashion, media ,journalism, photography training institute can be promoted here.7. dewas with untapped beauty at places like kalakund can host some resorts and can be developed for eco tourism.8. all along highway industry can be allocated cheap land and power from indira sagar can be used.9.train line between indore and bhopal in one of the most decongestant one .it can be developed as high speed corridor.10. any intervening town say like dewas or sehore can be developed as big dairy processing cetre on the lines of anand.

I had written about it when the incident happened almost a year ago. Insensitivity of administration in solving the case was apparent from day one, when they are busy protecting our leaders and their supporters..and today the news came that Ms Vidya Khan finally bid adieu to the city and nation..

Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a Community Radio Station at Central India Institute of Science and Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh has been signed . With this, the number of CRS will increase to 67 in the country.

The focus of the Community Radio Station would be to encourage the community members to speak out their needs and ideas, to create knowledge content for students and to act as a medium for teachers to develop knowledge content relevant to their subjects.

It will also ensure that the community is literate and enabled to absorb information through media including radio. Regular information on child health, pregnancy, local health issues and seasonal precautions for women’s related programmes will benefit the community.

The Government encourages setting up of community radio stations as it promises to provide an opportunity to the local communities to express themselves, share their views and particularly empower the women, youth and the marginalized group to take part in local self governance and overall socio economic and cultural development of the area.

Community Radio Station also better informs the society about the developmental initiatives of government and promote transparency in the implementation of the schemes.

Politics in MP has been lately reduced to 'aayojan' or 'programme' culture. Apart from back room maneuvering the other way which people can think of to shine their political career is organizing programmes. this could be religious procession on innumerable jayantis, caste panchayats, hindu samagams, melas, pravchan by holy people.

Those who are resourceful and intelligent end up organizing 20-20 tournament or star night.Now small time leader either harass local traders for the money needed for such 'aayojans' or float trusts and organizations which receive funding from state govt. or local bodies e.g. malwa utsav.

those who have anyways made millions out of public money are a bit large hearted and do not mind spending from their ill gotten wealth.

but all this have very salutary effect on people. No one in normal public expects a leader to be visionary or raise real issue now a days. for their day to day problems they know how to bribe officials and find their way so the politician who does all this kind of tantrums gets eyeballs as well as headlines.

in fact clippings of such programmes with number of attendees become part of resume of such leaders when they are canvassing for party ticket.

whenever such a programme is due pubic is duly notified by large and obstructive hoardings at all places where king size photo of 'bhiya' dominate the poster and the intent (god, sports, saint etc...) appear in some corner of it.

public electricity, space ( dussehra maidan of Indore is favorite for such nuisance), and roads are freely used.

our CM has also got bug of this disease recently so first he got publicity by giving 1 lakh each to Indian woman hockey team. this was more than what he would have got by placing full page ads in national edition of times of India...a shrewd move indeed and as a taxpayer i would not mind it that much.

but goaded by his 'competent' advisers he decided to hold obadullah cup hockey tournament just after hockey world cup to cash on the pubic sentiment. now planning was faulty becoz

1. because of IPL even movies are not being released who will come and watch hockey2. it is summer already3. board exam time - all the teams are devoid of their star players.

now they say in puranas that in kaliyug only people who talk big and do nothing will rule the roost. I used to apply this verse to obama till day but now shivrajsingh chouhan, our publicity hungry CM also fits the bill.